This video forms a home-made trailer to an article on cricket in the village of Wingham, near Canterbury, in the summer of 1773. Cricket was still a relatively new game at this stage, and was played only in the south-east of England. But who took part? The article uses a unique set of records - a set of scorecards with details of 7 games played by the Wingham Club in 1773 - to explore this question and to shed light on the nature of village life in the late eighteenth century. The article appears in the journal History for January 2017; for anyone interested in reading it, a final draft of the text can be accessed free of charge here: https://www.academia.edu/33892218/The_parish_elite_at_play_Cricket_community_and_the_middling_sort_in_eighteenth-century_Kent